Reconciliation in three groups of lion-tailed macaques |
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Authors: | C Abegg B Thierry W Kaumanns |
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Institution: | (1) CNRS, URA 1295, Ethologie et Neurobiologie, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France;(2) Breeding and Husbandry, Deutsches Primatenzentrum, Góttingen, Germany;(3) Present address: Laboratoire d’Ethologie et Neurobiologie, Université Louis Pasteur, 12 rue Goethe, 67000 Strasbourg, France |
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Abstract: | We studied postconflict behavior in three captive groups of lion-tailed macaques (Macaca silenus). After a conflict, we monitored the aggressee as the focal individual during a 10-min postconflict period and made control
observations the following day on the same individual. Selective attraction between former opponents occurred in the first
minutes of the postconflict period. The conciliatory tendency was relatively high, about 40%. Although no specific behavior
was used to reconcile, postconflict contacts were especially intense and a rich repertoire of affiliative patterns was exihibited.
With regard to the rate and form of reconciliation, lion-tailed macaques resemble Sulawesi macaques, which belong to the same
phyletic lineage. We also discuss the possible interrelations between conciliatory patterns and other characteristics of social
organization. |
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Keywords: | Macaca silenus conflict appeasement social organization evolution |
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